Is the Samsung Galaxy S5 a good buy?

Besides black and white, the phone is also available in blue and gold — the colour of the phone actress Freida Pinto sported at the event.

The phone is light and, in the limited time we used it, the processor seemed zippy. The TouchWiz interface has been revamped. But the two most talked about features were the fingerprint scanner and the heart rate sensor.

Is the Samsung Galaxy S5 a good buy?

Of course, the phone’s also dust-proof and water-proof — a bucket wasn’t available to dunk the phone into it. The fingerprint scanner, on the phone’s home button, is different from that on the Apple iPhone 5s.

While in the 5s, one needs to place one’s finger on the home button, on the S5, one needs to swipe across.